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No man should choose to die for lack of reason.
Wishes are ten a sestertius. In any case, you richly deserved your promotion. What you didn’t account for was the unpalatable truth that the higher you rise, the more you are enslaved to the will of those above you. A sad but vital truth.’
Consider this an important lesson of soldiering. The first casualty of war is the plan.’
the other side doesn’t always play along with the plan.’
All men could reach a point where authority mattered no more and simple, raw self-survival reigned supreme in their hearts.
